Komnas HAM Calls The Death Of 4 FPI Warriors Violating Human Rights, Polri Is Waiting For An Official Letter

JAKARTA - The National Police is still waiting for an official recommendation letter from the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) regarding the findings of the police who committed human rights violations against four FPI members. The National Police will first study the recommendations of Komnas HM.

"The National Police is still waiting for an official letter to be sent to the National Police. Of course we will study the recommendation as well as the letter that went to the Police," said Head of Public Relations of the Police, Inspector General Argo Yuwono to reporters, Friday, January 8.

Argo said that his party really respects and appreciates the results of the investigation by Komnas HAM. However, he emphasized that the investigation and investigation process of the National Police was in accordance with the rules.

Therefore, the National Police ensures that the results of the investigation can be accounted for in the trial.

"Investigators and the National Police in carrying out an investigative activity, a criminal act is of course based on the testimony of witnesses, the statements of the suspects, evidence as well as indications and of course everything must be proven in court," said Argo.

Previously it was reported, Komnas HAM explained the results of the shooting investigation involving the police and members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) at Km 48 and 50, the Jakarta Cikampek Toll Road, Karawang West Java.

As a result, Komnas HAM said that the police had committed human rights violations against four FPI members. There are two different contexts to look at the shooting case.

"There were six people who died in two different contexts of the incident," said the Commissioner and Chair of the National Commission on Human Rights Choirul Anam in a press conference which was broadcast online, Friday, January 8.

The context of the first incident, said Anam, occurred on Jalan International Karawang to KM 48 Cikampek. In this incident two people died.

"The substance of the context is the incidents of shuffling between cars and attacking each other between FPI officers and troops, even using firearms," he said.

While in the second context, this incident occurred around KM 50 of the Cikampek Toll Road. At that time, as many as four FPI soldiers who were alive were later found dead.

"At KM 50 and above, there were four people who were still alive under the control of state officials who were later found dead so that the incident was a form of human rights violation," said Anam.

"The shooting of four people at the same time without any other effort to avoid casualties indicates that there was an act of unlawful killing against the FPI troops," he explained.